The Morning Dish – Thursday, February 5th Memphis tops Louisville, going to Disneyland ®: Louisville, who was without Taquan Dean, Francisco Garcia (Francisco Cabrera to Steve Lavin – yes folks, he is getting paid by ESPN), and reserve Nouha Diakite, couldn’t overcome a second half surge by Memphis to avoid […]
Author: Joaquin Mesa
SWAC Notebook
Southwestern Athletic Conference Notebook by Joaquin Mesa The Lead is Cut to None Mississippi Valley State has been caught by Jackson State in conference play, and things are getting heated with the top two teams in the conference with two losses and Texas Southern, Southern University and Alabama A&M trailing […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Thursday, January 29th Utah coach Rick Majerus enters hospital: Two days after Rick Pitino took an indefinite leave of absence due to a urological related pain, Rick Majerus, head coach of the University of Utah’s basketball team for fifteen years, was in the hospital complaining of […]
The Whiner of Westwood
Right and Wrong in the Southland by Joaquin Mesa For a while in Los Angeles, Loyola Marymount was the king of the castle. They nestled themselves up on top of the library tower in downtown and they proclaimed to the helicopters circling that it was indeed a town of Jesuits. […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Thursday, January 22th Fourteen straight for Louisville: Louisville had already beaten then Hoopville #1 Florida as well as once undefeated Kentucky, and they were looking for their fourteenth win in row against an undefeated Cincinnati squad. At the half, it looked to be a nail biter, […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Thursday, January 15th Maryland commands ‘Tar, Heel, good North Carolina’: Maryland has trouble with the West Virginia’s of the world, but it can beat the likes of Wisconsin, Florida and now North Carolina. Maryland out-worked a shallow North Carolina team in the second half to make […]
SWAC Notebook
Southwestern Athletic Conference Notebook by Joaquin Mesa Hallelujah! Hallelujah! HalleBerry! Life couldn’t get much better then this! It looks like there is a legitimate tournament team in the SWAC. I know, I know, it’s a miracle! I’ve been wishing and hoping and praying every night for success in one of […]
MEAC Notebook
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Notebook by Joaquin Mesa The beginning of conference play is now behind us, and I am already longing for the days before the season when I could legitimately say that there was a MEAC team with at least a five hundred record. It seems that MEAC teams […]
Nightmare of the Rankings
Nightmare Before Christmas by Joaquin Mesa Far from now, when my grandson awakes from a nightmare on a stormy night and asks me why life has to be so unfair, why we die, why there is such a word as sadness, I will take a deep breath, stroke his hair […]
Pac-10 Unknowns
The Unknowns of the Pac-10 by Joaquin Mesa As Arizona was playing Texas last night, I recalled how in an earlier article I pretended not to be a Pac-10 fanatic. I spoke of how the Pac-10 was not as strong as previous years. I based this assumption on the fact […]
